Bible Dictionary: Flattery: The Wicked Use, to Themselves

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Of the Reasons for Administering Correction to Bad and Good ...
... in the meshes of married life, but use meagre food ... abstain from finding fault with
the wicked, because they ... because they weakly relish the flattery and respect ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 9 of the reasons for.htm

"They have Corrupted Themselves; their Spot is not the Spot of his ...
... Ye use to impute your backslidings to the times, to ... were no temptation, if our hearts
were not wicked hearts ... time declared that it was but flattery, though they ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon iv they have corrupted.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... Flattery, beauty of pretended religion, false witnessing and charging ... Use them not
as special friends, when thou perceivest ... wit and skill of such wicked men is ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures ...
... hear anything in their courts but mere flattery, the more ... of the apostle, to separate
from the wicked, when it ... why should we in similar necessity use this less ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 of the discipline.htm

How Ahab when He had Taken Jezebel to Wife Became More Wicked than ...
... He imitated them in their wicked courses, and in their ... But Elijah, without any flattery,
said that he was himself the ... and how, when he had made use of gentle ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 how ahab when.htm

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus.
... Flattery is the bane of friendship. ... the life-giving food in them, that they themselves
are stronger ... then as obtaining from God, and making a wicked use of what ...
/.../who is the rich man that shall be saved/i from the latin translation of.htm

the Use of Humiliation
... versed in complimenting, and skilled in flattery above the ... or the love and peace
of wicked men, before ... tempore, till the Presbyterians will use discipline, and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/baxter/the reformed pastor/section 1 - the use.htm

On Clothes.
... are love of display, love of popularity, and flattery and deceit ... the face covered;
for it is a wicked thing for ... they prove themselves to be of less use and less ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter xi name clothes.htm

The Mildness of the Yellow Press
... charges the whole police system with a wicked and definite ... are really hopeful, hope
is a mere flattery or platitude ... He polished his own weapons for his own use. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/viii the mildness of the.htm

1 Cor. I. 4, 5
... but the saying is free from all flattery; for he ... He doth not use violence, nor compel;
[12] for who ... if thou knowest that uncleanness is wicked, wherefore dost ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily ii 1 cor i.htm

Subtopics

Flattery by Darius's Courtiers

Flattery by False Prophets

Flattery by Gideon

Flattery by Herod Agrippa Ii

Flattery by Israel and Judah

Flattery by Jacob

Flattery by Mephibosheth